Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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Just stumbled upon this project, seems rather new as my DNS blocked its domain by default for being too new hehe.. Anyone had a chance to try it yet? Its got some hefty promises, like having equally strong privacy features as Librewolf. I'll be giving it ago at least, almost sounds a bit too good to be true...
Its got some hefty promises, like having equally strong privacy features as Librewolf.
It doesn't, check yourself.
it did...they have changed their website a lot these last few days.
I love options but does anybody else wish devs would put their heads together and focus on improving ONE app rather than launch a millon similar forks?
More fox the merrier. We have Icecat, Iceweasel, Palemoon, Librewolf, Tor Browser, Mullvad Browser... I'm sure I'm missing many more for desktop.
So, how about the Cachy Browser from CachyOS? (aur)
This repository benefits from the knowledge and research provided by arkenfox, their documentation was vital to this revamp, so special thanks to their project. We do not use arkenfox's user.js but we try to keep up with it, and we also consider it a great resource for users who want to find their own setup.
We encourage users to find their own setup and to use our default configuration as something to build on top of. This is now easier thanks to the overrides, just place your own preferences in the proper location: -> ~/.cachy/cachy.overrides.cfg
Differences from LibreWolf:
- Enhanced security & privacy.
- Gentoo patches. Taken from Gentoo's Firefox.
- uBlock Origin added.
- Moonlight theme added.
- Preset for "Profile Sync Daemon" and Firejail/Firejail(hardened) available.
- Custom Rules for uBlock Origin.
- Custom branding.
Notes and thanks
Some of the older prefs in this project are taken from pyllyukko and many more were investigated on bugzilla.
Thanks to the whole LibreWolf community.
Definitely very interesting! Thanks for sharing. Was thinking about trying CachyOS too.
This OS is good and I've used it for 6months but I want to switch because it packed all of these theming inside and you cannot really remove it
Yeah, the themeing is there. But you can easily uninstall it and other core CachyOS-packages, they're just packages after all. (I've done it)
The other way would be to start with Arch and add CachyOS repositories, that way you can also profit from the v3/v4 packages.
That's cool but the CachyOS repo is not the most interesting thing, the pre-optimized desktop is really nice
Good to know - thanks. I, too, prefer to customize mine in my own way.
Yeah, and it's sad because I didn't find a distro that is really welled tweaked without theming (speaking of CachyOS and Garuda mainly), they are great as their using all the best optimizations in terms of performance but they add this theming...
Can’t you just not select the themes during the install process of cschyOS?
You can unselected testing etc... But cannot with all of the stuff like the fish shell, and so on. So you need to manually remove all this, and this is not good at all
For some reason I recall being able to choose that during install. I’ll fuck around with the installer later to check. But I agree I use don’t use fish either and had to figure out how to swap over to zsh. It was pretty painless though.
Yeah, so far my favourite distro for this is Bazzite, still allowed a lot of customization and is well optimised for gaming.
It's a good distro, but seems to be too gaming focused, new techs for gaming that are not really useful
For that, check out Bluefin or Aurora. They're all under the same umbrella as Bazzite, but with a user/developer focus instead of a gaming focus.
How does this compate to Mullvad Browser?
Think mullvad is better
Actually quite stoked about this as it boasts those librewolf privacy features while having a UI similar to Arc. Can’t wait for it to exit Alpha
nobody uses iceweasel? For those who don't know, it is the version of firefox cleaned up by non ‘libre’ code mainly from debian and then taken over by parabola linux. For me it is the best together with mullvad.
I was under the impression IceWeasel changed to IceCat.
And, honestly, from all I could remember, the default protections are so strong a good half of sites doesn't even work properly lol
Typical GNU maximalism.
(But yeah - it really blocks all the bad stuff and doesn't do anything you don't ask it to do, not even call for updates by default)
icecat is based on the LTS version, iceweasel the rolling-release. I have been using iceweasel for almost a year and all the sites I have used work
I see - thanks for clarification!
Got confused because beforehand there was GNU IceWeasel (now GNU IceCat), which is now separate from IceWeasel. Quite a shitshow.
I was daily driving it but started crashing after an update. I'll be getting back to it tho, I'm sure there has been like 4 updates in the last 24 hours...
Floorp is literally running with tons of optimizations and is shifting to the standard FF release instead of long term support build in their next major release. The optimizations though are like front and center, and it has TONS of privacy toggles and features.
That comparison is... Self serving let's say.
I love Mulls new browser fork of Firefox but on Gos it weakens the security due to a sandbox implementation not being as strong vs Chromium. I hate big corpo who don't. Brave seems to be the best mobile for now. Sucks but soon as sandboxing issue is fixed. Firefox FTW!
nixpkgs has been working on adding it for a month now but it uses “surfer” for compilation. It’ll be interesting to see how they end up building it in the Nix style. Looks like it’ll have to involve pnpm.
Has anyone tried loading arkenfox user.js on there? That's the bare minimum for me to use a Firefox-based browser. I'm not using that without hardening.